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QT approved comment: In 2.6.1, it would be useful to state clearly in the definitions whether or not the components (item types / member types) of lists and unions may or may not themselves be lists or unions. At present this information is hard to find.
Thank you for the comment. Unless we run into unexpected difficulty, I expect the editors will do as you suggest.
Created attachment 489 [details] Wording proposal of 19 September 2007 A wording proposal is attached, which adds a note after the definition of list, describing the constraint on item types, and a similar note after the definition of union, describing what may and what must not be a member type of a union. The wording proposal also contains a change to the description of the simple type definition component, allowing unions with empty sequences of member types; strictly speaking this change is not directly related to the issue raised here (it is a change we agreed to make when we adopted the current definition of xs:error), but while preparing this wording proposal I happened to notice that we had not made the necessary correction yet, so I took the opportunity to do it now. N.B. this wording proposal has NOT had the benefit of review by the other editors.
I've added the keyword 'needsReview' to signal that WG action is needed on the wording proposal in the attachment.
Looks good to me.
On 21 September, the Working Group accepted the wording proposal of 19 September found in the attachment. I'm closing this issue accordingly. Michael, if in your role as intermediary between the XML Schema WG and the QT WGs you would report this resolution to QT and then signal their assent to or dissent from the resolution in the usual way, we'd be grateful.
The wording proposal adopted 21 September and mentioned in comment #5 was integrated into the status-quo document in October 2007. I'm setting the keyword field to 'resolved' to reflect that fact.